cops caught on audio making up reason for arresting man after they arrested him

[gcomeau]

67. Oh no need to remind me.

I confined my first response specifically to criticizing Dr. Higgs.

But then you defended the statement. Then it became yours too. That's how that works.

Of course they are. Some will be religiously based. Some will be based on race or skin tone. Some rules will be based on where you were born or who your parents were. And some will be downright evil whose point is merely to extract money from innocent people, etc. And the people that enforce such laws are taking that evil unto themselves, if you will pardon the biblical soundng prose.

See? You just did it again.


So now I ask YOU, instead of asking Dr. Higgs.


How is society supposed to work in your mind? Are all law enforcement officials supposed to quit their jobs the instant a law you disagree with is put on the books... otherwise they become evil? So the instant a democratically elected assembly passes a law you don't like the choices are "all cops become evil, or we abandon the enforcement of all laws?


Or are we supposed to grant police officers the authority to dictate which laws they enforce all by themselves, thus granting them the power to supercede the democratically elected government at will? And that was we could at least have some percentage of them deciding to enforce only the laws you like, and we could allow them the label of "good cops"?


Or, is there a third utopian option in your mind?